Multisim AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Electronic Design Automation Tools

The best Electronic Design Automation alternative to Multisim is Circuit JS, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Multisim and 14 are Electronic Design Automation Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Electronic Design Automation Tool alternatives to Multisim are QUCS, LTspice, Proteus PCB design and Pspice.

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  1. Circuit JS icon
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    This is a javascript electronic circuit simulator. When the applet starts up you will see an animated schematic of a simple LRC circuit. The green color indicates positive voltage. The gray color indicates ground. A red color indicates negative voltage.

    47 Circuit JS alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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  2. QUCS icon
     38 likes

    The Quite Universal Circuit Simulator (QUCS) is an integrated circuit simulator allowing the simulation and graphical presentation of results of large-signal, small-signal and noise behavior in circuits.

    36 QUCS alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Pspice icon
     5 likes

    Software for Simulating Voltage and Currents of a text file net-list of a electronics components such as Resistors, Capacitors, inductors, transisters, Diodes, Voltage and Current Sources, etc.

    32 Pspice alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. This electronic circuit simulator is highly interactive giving the feeling of playing with real components. It's very helpful for experimentation and visualization. It's a desktop version of the Circuit JS.

    34 CircuitJS1 Desktop Mod alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Ngspice icon
     8 likes

    Ngspice is a mixed-level/mixed-signal circuit simulator. Its code is based on three open source software packages: Spice3f5, Cider1b1 and Xspice. Ngspice is part of gEDA project, a full GPL'd suite of Electronic Design Automation tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Qucs-S icon
     3 likes

    Qucs-S is a spin-off of the Qucs cross-platform circuit simulator. "S" letter indicates SPICE. The purpose of the Qucs-S subproject is to use free SPICE circuit simulation kernels with the Qucs GUI.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  7. iCircuit icon
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    iCircuit is the easy to use electronic circuit simulator and designer - the perfect tool for students, hobbyists, and engineers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
     
  8. Ktechlab icon
     28 likes

    KTechLab is an IDE for microcontrollers and electronics. It supports circuit simulation, program development for microcontrollers and simulating the programmed microcontroller together with its application circuit.

    29 Ktechlab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. Upverter icon
     13 likes

    We build the pickaxes of hardware engineering. Ideation tools, schematic capture, PCB layout, design hosting, parts library management, and affordable prototyping.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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